How come it that, both in media and sometimes in real life, males are often seemingly more interested in females (eg always try to ask them out, are shy about it, etc) than females are in males?
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Because one of the many gender roles of western society (and in many societies, to be fair) is that men should be the ones to make the first move. And when it comes to media, bear in mind that the vast majority of this is created by men, which means it’s written using the man’s assumptions about and experience with reality. Many men get the impression that women aren’t really interested in men until the men make moves, and that impression influences how they write female characters. If you watch something made by a woman though, you’ll often see female characters expressing plenty of interest in male characters (in many cases more than the male characters express in the women).
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